The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65; Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Expecially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery, from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volume 1 |
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... facts that seemed important in their day and sphere respectively , the two or three thousand that have an abiding and ... fact stated and that omitted ? Why give a page to this occurrence , and ignore that , which was of at least equal ...
... facts that seemed important in their day and sphere respectively , the two or three thousand that have an abiding and ... fact stated and that omitted ? Why give a page to this occurrence , and ignore that , which was of at least equal ...
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... fact that some of these words had already been employed - some of them a hundred times - to set forth the same general truths , in no manner unfitted them for his use . The claim that his draft was a pla- against the LIBERTIES of one ...
... fact that some of these words had already been employed - some of them a hundred times - to set forth the same general truths , in no manner unfitted them for his use . The claim that his draft was a pla- against the LIBERTIES of one ...
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... fact is that circles of those who oppose the new Constitution , we already hear it whispered in the private that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system , and that we must of necessity resort to separate ...
... fact is that circles of those who oppose the new Constitution , we already hear it whispered in the private that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system , and that we must of necessity resort to separate ...
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... fact , a bounty on that article . " Mr. DICKINSON [ of Delaware ] expressed his sentiments as of a similar character . And Messrs . KING and LANGDON [ of New Hampshire ] were also in favor of giving the power to the General Government ...
... fact , a bounty on that article . " Mr. DICKINSON [ of Delaware ] expressed his sentiments as of a similar character . And Messrs . KING and LANGDON [ of New Hampshire ] were also in favor of giving the power to the General Government ...
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... fact that the African Slave - Trade was abolished by Great Britain under the brief Whig ministry of Fox and Grenville , after such abolition had been boldly urged for twenty years under the all but dictatorial Tory rule of Pitt , who ...
... fact that the African Slave - Trade was abolished by Great Britain under the brief Whig ministry of Fox and Grenville , after such abolition had been boldly urged for twenty years under the all but dictatorial Tory rule of Pitt , who ...
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